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Solution Overview

Solution Name

Education Without Borders Project Ecuador

One-line solution summary.

Hacer posible que los niños, niñas y adolescentes de zonas sin acceso a la educación virtual y presencial cambien su realidad y su futuro .

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Elevator pitch

What is your solution?

Implementar redes de conectividad wifi y fortalecer los medios de energía eléctrica en zonas rurales de la sierra ecuatoriana, el objetivo es brindar y cumplir el derecho a la educación a más de un millón de niños sin acceso a la educación virtual. La tecnología a utilizar son: postes con cableado capaz de brindar una red segura de energía eléctrica e internet, además de brindar recursos físicos como libros para un mejor acompañamiento.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

En la sierra ecuatoriana existen 1.149 parroquias, de las cuales 790 son rurales y 359 urbanas, que representan el 69% de la población. Y cerca de un millón de niños y adolescentes sin acceso a la educación virtual. Esas zonas rurales están a kilómetros de la ciudad lo que dificulta la conectividad, son familias que se dedican íntegramente a la agricultura y ganadería, adultos y niños ayudan a sus familias en este trabajo para sustentarse. Las consecuencias son el crecimiento de la tasa de analfabetismo en el Ecuador.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

It would benefit approximately one million children to fulfill their right to basic and higher education, children with low economic solvency who live from agriculture. They do not have electronic tools to access virtual classes, nor an internet network to access, their parents, 80% of them, do not know how to read or write, cannot help their children because they dedicate their whole life to agriculture.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

The government has implemented measures, classes through radio stations, television and a website, however, these efforts are almost null in its operation or achievement of objective, online education for children in rural areas is critical, no one cares about them and have become in the shadows, as they are neglected, they are dedicated to help their parents in the work of agriculture, try to keep pace with their education, however, it is something too unattainable for them and their parents.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)

Our solution's stage of development:

Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

I do not have any company helping, nor an interested organization, because I have not proposed that yet, it is difficult to do it without means of profit, I put my idea here to generate momentum in its realization, I have visited the rural parishes and I know the situation of these children, it gives me impotence not to do anything, but in my country it is very difficult to be heard or taken into account.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Quito, Ecuador

Team Lead:

Im, Sofia Mendez